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GDAL is a library for reading and writing raster geospatial dataformats, and is released under an X/MIT style Open Source license bythe Open Source Geospatial Foundation. As a library, it presents asingle abstract data model to the calling application for allsupported formats. It may also be built with a variety of usefulcommand-line utilities for data translation and processing.

The related OGR library (which is part of the GDAL source tree)provides a similar capability for simple features vector data.